Art at the Close of China's Empire
Publisher: Arizona State University
Published: August 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9781878529640
Subjects: Techniques - Painting; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Asian; Chinese Painting; Antiques; Asian Art
First sentence: Historically no one has ever doubted the importance of the century as a bridge separating the calm, confident, almost beatific peace of Qianlong's eighteenth century from the iconoclastic, nationalistically insecure, and revolutionary nature of twentieth-century China.